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Microsoft Says "War on Terror" is Overblown

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the also-sugar-is-sweet dept.

SlinkySausage writes "The endless security measures imposed on society as a result of the "war on terror" have become overblown and intrusive, according to Microsoft Redmond senior security analyst Steve Riley. He made the comments in a talk at day one of Tech.Ed Australia about software security. Riley also fessed up that Microsoft cocked up XP from a security perspective. "We let you down with XP," he said. Microsoft also showed a very interesting new desktop virtualisation technology called SoftGrid, which allows applications to be virtualised individually, rather than a whole OS. Think Virtual PC or VMware, but instead of virtualising an OS, just a single application is virtualised."

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  1. Let us down? by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They let us down with XP?! I think that means they totally screwed us with Vista!

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    The game.
  2. Microsoft is Hypocritical. by wellingj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about the war on Piracy?

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